Just give me an Android TV app. I don't want another stick. I would pony up for an Nvidia Shield if that makes
jaredthegeek
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Google Fi uses T-Mobile.
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Honestly, it doesn't matter how good it is if the only way to get it is with a brand new tablet. Update suppor
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Bixby sucks, they add a ton of bloatware like browsers that are terrible.
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I could give you a pretty solid list of cities in California for that weather. I grew up near Monterey, CA but
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The antispam features are what keep me on Android.
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The problems you experience are common enough to be a concern. I know of many who work for Google that got fru
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Packing the performance of a Core2Duo in an always on PC.
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Congratulations because that version of Android Auto is being retired.
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Why would ARM go backwards? x86 is ancient.
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Roku does not build any TV's. You TV is a Hisense or TCL or other brand with Roku integrated.
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I really like the anker one for travel.
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This is a show piece. If they were serious they would have just started with the 20% ocean plastics in a regul
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Android 12 is a big improvement to 11. I just wish that something like my Samsung Galaxytab S6 would get it. T
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Oh no! Someone likes something I don't!
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Its not for productivity and neither is the standard iPad. Its for consumption. The mini is ideal to me for no
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As someone with an ultrawide monitor the menu does not bother me at all. I prefer it to the current scheme.
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With Android apps coming via the Amazon app store this makes the Go a little more useful.
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My Surface Go is 2 years old, made by Microsoft and not supported.
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Neither does Microsoft and they don't. There are plenty of old apps and games that simply don't run in Win10 a
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Such a great looking machine. Hopefully a good process that is M1 equivalent comes to fruition to make device
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*Narrator*It's not.
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Older systems always worked better with Linux. I think for people that have something like that at home it doe
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Through the M1 lens the Qualcomm chips are laughably bad at computer things. WOA is a worse experience that my
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Its odd they did not just integrate 5G at this point. 4G is fine but 5G is mature enough in most areas to make
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FYI the homepods do not support lossless audio either.
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Android has had widgets since almost v1 but now you are saying they were on the iPhone first?
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Mac users have no choice in adopting M1 if they continue to stay with Apple. Even the iPad pro has gone to M1.
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I have this laptop, the OLED screen is amazing. Its a great notebook thus far. Its fairly fast but the fans do
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Microsoft and Qualcomm need to get real serious about WOA real fast. Apple is eating their lunch at an embarra
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You illustrate where the real problem with mass EV adoption. Where to charge. Apartments or homes without gara
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11 inch iPad Pro with 5G is quite a tempting machine. I really like having integrated cellular in my devices a
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In reply to fishnet37222:I do on my laptop and strangely when I had an iMac on my desk I did reach up to poke
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I am reading and typing on a Galaxy Tab S6 (got it half off) and while I really like android, the tablets suck
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But it looks wide screen and not more square which would be better for reading.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:The problem is that a lot of Windows laptops live that dongle life now.
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I just get:
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Time to look at the new password manager Microsoft integrated into their authenticator app.
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In reply to GaryMaker: I have had plenty of paid for items abandoned over the years.
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:That's no way to speak of the hosts. :)
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I would say the return of LTE is huge but then everyone is working from home. Then a
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I have the Spectre x360 14 after being a Surface user and I am very happy. I found the tablet piece was very s
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Brad looking like a DollarTree RoboCop toy.
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The problem with Parallels is that it will emulate the ARM version of Windows and there is no software that ru
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I have had this model for a few weeks now with a 16 gigs and a 1TB optane ssd and have been really pleased wit
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The point is that Apple iOS apps can now run on their computers. Chromebooks can run windows apps in emulation
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Its a very tempting proposition. The longest battery life and performance from an entry level device. I think
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I am playing Mass Effect 2 right now so I really can not fathom buying a new console for at least the revision
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The storage situation is very disappointing.
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In reply to SvenJ:That is the best way to describe the touchpad on the apple remote, marginally usable.
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Someone has tested this with an old HP LapDock and it worked great with Dex. I had an Old Motorola that offere
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I have found Dex on my GalaxyTab S6 acceptable. Its not great, its not terrible. It worksish and gets what mos
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I thought there were some legal issues as well.
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In reply to Daishi:Take it up with your government. Paul does not have the power to fix that.
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That's some serious hardware for that money.
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Most people use cases so the color is almost a non issue. The other phones had fixed amounts of memory and 128
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Apple used motorola chips in the past and that did not effect Intel. You are right, this may mean nothing. Wha
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iPhone is really the closest to Windows Phone. Its a locked down ecosystem like Windows phone with curated app
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In reply to will:Most users could do all of their computing needs on an iPad already. If it docked to a full
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:My devices use USB C for power as do nearly 2k deployed laptops and we have had zer
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Are they in competition with Google for who can shut down more services?
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I use Windows a lot and had windows phones and CE devices going way back. I am thinking about leaving for the
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The apps will work across devices. The piece that stood out was not even the transition but rather that on iPa
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Congratulations!
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Not an echo but it looks like a poorly dubbed movie. :)
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In reply to Patrick3D:Why do you place so little value on ARM based chips? Its an architecture like x86 or x64
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I am interested to see your take on this Paul regarding usability and what this may mean for the Surface.
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I got my pixel 4 XL for under $500 which is where it always should have been. The only thing that is keeping m
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In reply to wolters:The Tab S6 is twice the price of the base iPad and half as useful. Their watches lack a lo
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I have a go and I like it. Its better than a Chrome book but that's a low bar. Does more than an iPad but
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Why not just all android phones? I am tired of these games.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:You don't expect readers to actual read the article before posting do you?
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I have a Surface Go that I carry around. I now am having an impossible time justifying it over carrying an iPa
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Why are so many devices lacking 16 gig ram options? 8 gigs is ok but I would love to see more core i5 with 16
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Solid value. I bought a Pixel 4XL for just above that price recently or I would be grabbing this.
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There is still an big and unknown impact looming. My buddy that works at Google got an email last night encour
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I am in with Google home but thats a Lenovo clock, an insignia speaker I got for $25 and 2 mini's. Nothin
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I had DirectTV Now which is AT&T TV Now and I have this box and have for at least a year now. Its actually
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In reply to Mark999:I don't know, iPads fulfill the computing needs of probably 80% of the population. We
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$500 has become my ceiling for phones. Its a diminishing return on the spend and they go on sale and BOGO ofte
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In reply to djross95:If the file manager is uwp file manager that's available on 10 already then it will
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Only animals save anything to the desktop, are you an animal? /S
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I watched the video of the one in the wild and they used both screens pretty well. I think it could be useful
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In reply to Bart:While I would tend to agree even Apple has garbage updates and they have no third party devic
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The a series phones is where they have real winners. The simple software. Regular updates and great cameras.
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Best Buy staff have not received commission on sales in over 25 years at least but the sales guy still should
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I have the Dell app loaded on a surface device and its fantastic compared to the MS implementation. The Dell a
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They really need to refresh the 15 more fully this year rather than just a spec bump.
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In reply to t-b.c:I have Comcast and streaming tv works in both. Its you and not the browser. It requires flas
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In reply to mattbg:From an enterprise perspective, if Edge works as well as Chrome then why would i bother dea
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:If you read the comment it states when they were abandoning IE for Chrome as it had
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This is the quality content I come to Thurrott.com for. If you are going to censor then make it really humorou
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How important is sync when it will only work on PC's at release anyway? How many people are using multipl
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Got my invite this week. Pretty excited to try it out.
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The lack of fingerprint reader really bugs me the but rest of the phone seems great. I use a password manager
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In reply to lvthunder:You must be tremendous fun at parties. Offensive to other engineers because a product is
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In reply to SvenJ:They have not innovated anything in years. Its irrelevant.
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The thing that really bothers me with this device is the lack of fingerprint reader. I use that for my banking
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I really enjoy your phone reviews but I do not envy you switching phones constantly. Its not that difficult bu
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I thought I wanted the Neo until I saw the Duo now I can't decide which work work better for me.
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I am in love with the Surface Pro X
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In reply to earlster:Its not dedicated, its a dynamic area.
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I am in love with this thing but I am wary of the no 64 bit but then again I walk around with a Surface Go all
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AMD is killing it right now. Their graphics power is far better than Intel at the moment though they tend not
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In reply to mebby:The name is weak but pointed. Depending on how well it works my wife may get my Surface Go w
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In reply to Thom77:I just did a Cybersecurity Capture the flag event on my Surface Go. The battery is a bit la
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Most people do not care. The power user cares and the power user is a decision maker at the Enterprise. I want
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Depending on the pricing mode this may be great for a business continuity effort.
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What can you do with a PixelBook that requires an i& and 16 gigs of ram? Honest question as I am not famil
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Discrete graphics would be fantastic. Make it compete with the XPS 15.
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In reply to RM:That's the cost for a solo plan. Its $45 per device on 4 lines of service.
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I am loading it now on my Pixel 3a XL because I am a trusting idiot.
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This is great news. I have a computer with one USB C with TB and the others do not. Its idiotic at best.
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6.5 years is within most hardware refresh cycles for companies.
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I have google home devices that I cast spotify with and have not encountered this issue. It may be the way it
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My Android phone freezes and locks up more than my Windows computers do. I still have many requirements that C
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Its beautiful but performance of WARM has not been stellar.
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The $500 mark came about a decade ago. You should use $700 now. That can get you a lot including a surface on
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How would you hold it and not have it constantly taking action? That's what I hate even more about bezel
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In reply to Siv:Its when something goes from great to lame. Its based on an episode of Happy Days where the Fo
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I bought a Pixel 3a XL and its one of the best phones I have owned. The pure Android experience and everything
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Dell has had software that does this for a few years. I have it running on my Surface and its pretty nice.
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In reply to TallGuySE:The Surface is still kinda awkward as a tablet. I have a Go that I use as a tablet but i
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In reply to Simard57:Most people don't take their laptop with them at all.
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28 cores, 1.5 TB or Ram or a new car.
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If they add mouse support then MS is in some real danger. That is the hold out for why more people don't
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I really like this device. Small screen for displaying minimal information. If I had a smart doorbell this wou
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This is a money grab.“Windows 10 Home Advanced will support high-end chipsets like the Intel Core i9, AMD Th
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This is fantastic. I also appreciate that its on Vimeo and not on Youtube.
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Dell has had a product that does this and can mirror your phone on your computer for a couple of years that wo
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In reply to mterrill68:It doesn't. Aluminum stops wireless charging which is why premium phones switched
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The 64GB base is dumb at this point and was done purely to push people away from this device to the twice as m
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Paul needs a nice gimbal to take on trips with as many weird places he conducts the podcast.
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Should have had PD for it. I have a cheaper device with more ports that has PD so I can also power my device.
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In reply to innitrichie:This is why I have a hard time paying this much. 18-24 months of life for headphones.
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At least they are consistently inconsistent.
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I bought a go with LTE. I tried an iPad and it did not cut it for me. It's suitable for most daily tasks
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That's exactly why I cropped cable TV.
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This is good and makes sense with all the new pushes into game streaming and what will likely be a subscriptio
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In reply to gwj.fl:That makes no sense as the Xbox supports a ton of other streaming and Movie and TV services
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In reply to Vladimir:Apple hardware is terrible? On what planet? Their keyboard on their laptops are problemat
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In reply to ryandevega:The platform now has very little to do with what services you use anyway outside of app
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Are they in a competition with Google about who can abandon more products?
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"Unexpected"
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The only enterprise using Chromebooks is Google. They only push I ever get is for us to support Macs better in
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The molecularity of a laptop would reduce waste in a massive way. Upgrade your processor and ram, etc.
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Yes, we need to stop Amazon from crushing WalMart.
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This is the start of a move to this form factor across the board. It's what the courier dreamed of being.
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I hate Bixby. i just want to use Google Assistant but these phones are really great.
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Seems like an excellent device, I really like having LTE on my portable devices.
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I bought a Go, an LTE version even and sure the battery life is ok, saved by how fast it charges, and the proc
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I am sitting in my cubicle with tears in my eyes after this commercial.
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When Cortana emerged it was by far the best assistant and then it seemed to really languish as a personal assi
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Again, MS was ahead of the game. The themes were dark and they had a desktop environment but it was too early
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32 Gigs is as bad as 64 gigs for a windows device.
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In reply to duncanator:He's not as he already admitted to stealing the moves, one from Courtney Cox when
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw
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I work for a government and we did not migrate to Windows 7 until 2013 like many agencies. Windows 10 upgrades
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Surface GoSurface Headphones Ugly Windows sweater (Extra-Large)
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In reply to coeus89:That has not been the case on the XPS 13 for at least two generations as its soldered on r
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This is what I really want for my nightstand. I currently have one of the Insignia speakers I picked up for $2
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Looks like it still has a barrel charger and not USB C charging only which as previously discussed an idiotic
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Webcam to the top bezel is fantastic. Makes the Dell XPS 13 impossible to beat.
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What's the battery life? 32 seconds?Also I have seen at least one other surface clone that had the kickst
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In reply to Daishi:For LAN parties to play Descent.
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I think the Intel problem is perfectly captured by the Surface Go. That's the best they had to offer for
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In reply to RobertJasiek:Dell calls them 2 in 1 on their site.
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Xbox Game Pass
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its funny because MS has been trying to get slates to work for years and years. I had friends with Fujitsu sla
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In reply to paul-thurrott:How do you deal with the all the different stores? Android, Apple, and the 2 apps fr
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I did not even realize that I was effected by the copy paste bug until listening to this. I just thought I was
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We are all beta testers
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I have some cheap Feit electric wifi lights from Costco and thus far I have had no issue. I have 7 of them. I
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i spoke to both users and they are just distraught.
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In reply to Energy:OnePlus has gotten good at updates but if you get one through T-Mobile that will not be the
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8 Gigs of Ram in this thing but MS among others still thinks that 4 gigs enough in a mobile device, ARM powere
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I have been holding on for a while, I am still using my very aging Surface 4 4/128 LTE. I don't need a to
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In reply to skane2600:No $500 laptop has the runtime this does. Some of us need some real battery life but not
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The Pen is not included on this model, not sure why they would not have at least sent it. i believe it is just
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Would them forking Chromium mean that they could get it to perform better on Windows than Chrome. They could b
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To be fair i would much rather have my Grandma get an iPad over a surface. Its easier to use, simple interface
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In reply to brad-sams:I had a black 110 before the M311.
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I had an HP that I don't recall the model and I had an HP M311 with the Nvidia chipset that really made i
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With no apps no one will use Lite. With no one using Lite no one will build apps for it.
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I picked up a color laser printer for $100 on sale at Staples. Its not photo quality but its going to do 700 p
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I picked it up on Amazon and its on my Fire tablet waiting for me to read it.
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So instead of Andromeda we will get a Courier, a project they tried in 2008 and killed in 2010, but I really h
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I installed some Feit lights from Costco 2 for $22 60 watt multi color last night at home and used the Google
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I really want to like this laptop but the lack of USB C is crazy. I can forgive the lack of Thunderbolt USB C
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This device really intrigued me as I would use it more often as a laptop but the pen and how it folds would be
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I absolutely love Google Assistant and I know that's detrimental to any privacy. I also have an iPad that
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Its almost as if people are unwilling to spend $1200 for a phone.
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In reply to ghostrider:Yup, they should have powered on with Windows Phone and gotten over the hump. They real
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In reply to pachi:I use Win 10 on an old Surface 3 LTE 4/128 and its just fine. You have to scale up to like 1
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In reply to karma77police:It works fine, the problem is that there is a distinct lack of applications.
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In reply to HellcatM:At Costco you get the keyboard and pen in the package.
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:It has all the graphics power of a $200 year old gaming console! Amazing! /s
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In reply to FalseAgent:I did not say the Surface was Wacom, I just mentioned that Wacom is in trouble because
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That's some pretty impressive computing power. The pencil is also offering a better experience than Micro
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I prefer the 6T, The fingerprint reader under the screen is barely slower. The speaker being mono is not a big
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I have a couple of Roku televisions and while the functionality is limited to opening channels it would be gre
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What a gorgeous design. The available LTE is fantastic.
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A new iPad mini with LTE and pencil support would make me pull the trigger on one.
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Well I would sure hope so.
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With the dropping of apps in Chrome a Chromium browser would be acceptable to most people. I run Edge when I c
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In reply to Rob_Wade:Well they should just cancel the whole thing then.
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I go back and forth on the necessity of one of these. The fire tablets are a less than stellar way to read tha
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Give me a phone that size with a fantastic camera and I would be pleased. I don't game on mine really. I
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I really wish that Google had not joined the notch brigade. The screen on either side of the notch is useless
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Why are companies making portables like this with no LTE integration? Apple is the only one that offers LTE ac
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So its true that they do not work with the Xbox. What a misstep. They put out their own premium headphones and
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In reply to Sir_Timbit:I don't recall my old Thinkpads having those scalloped keys.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Why did they change the cover? The one on the ARM device looks fantastic and then th
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In reply to YouWereWarned:LTE,
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In reply to robincapper: I think you would do better with an iPad or another Windows unit over the go for that
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In reply to skborders: I have a 3 and use the pen mostly but also the keyboard quite a bit. Used it getting th
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Yeah, love edge on my work iPhone.
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There is 2x optical zoom and 10x digital on the more expensive phones and the Xr does not if that's your
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In the current app climate is it even that important to have such a strong media component? I use Android now,
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I don't care about Cortana on my computer. Having an assistant on my phone is key and since Cortana on An
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In reply to Daekar: So when I am on a plane with no wifi I can load up the webpage and read?
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In reply to wunderbar:No newstand support.
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Its all about the assistant for me, Bixby does not cut it.
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It works for cellphones so why not? Most people are probably charging it and paying more in interest than this
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I have no reason to get this without LTE. I use the pen a lot on my S3 w/ LTE and this will fit the same niche
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This was overdue. Being able to ink a screen shot I am emailing is great. There are a lot of fields where this
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The type covers are backlit. My Surface 3 is backlit, I have it right here.
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I have been an Android user for years with a break for Windows 8 and 10 on phones. I loved windows phone simpl
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I wish they had thrown in a wireless charging plate on top.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I am an IT pro and road warrior. Its perfect for us. Not everyone is a developer. Th
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In reply to jbskcjb:Yeah, my company gave me a giant laptop and I still just carried my surface mostly in the
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In reply to Jules_Wombat:Its a tablet, you need somewhere to hold it that is not screen.
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I really need to see the unit in person. The Surface 3 in size was perfect for my usage. Losing an inch in scr
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In reply to petvas:There are only a few bizarre users like me who need intel due to some need like Putty but n
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Sure they will release it then the LTE unit will follow in about a year as per typical MS. I like the size of
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In reply to ghostrider:I run windows 10 on a Surface 3 with no issues at all. The performance is just fine and
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In reply to Simard57:The fact that no software works on it yet. I don't even need robust things but simpl
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In reply to Bats:I much prefer the Roku interface to any of the others. Its simple and easy to find stuff. I w
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Quake Deathmatch is better than PUBG or Fortnite.
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I use my Surface 3 for everything but its the 4GB ram version and works fine. I don't use iTunes at all b
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My Surface 3 4/128 LTE has no issues with updates.
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The webcam placement is terrible. If I needed a webcam that much then I would just carry one with this or the
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The SMART boards are competitors, not really Google. They are used in a lot of places and were very competitiv
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In reply to Simard57:WOA is not ready for prime time. I wish it were because that kind of battery life is amaz
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In reply to skane2600:Most people no but most students and traveling professionals yes and there are dozens of
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In reply to karma77police:That's just not true. Tablets run that long with the new ARM architecture. The
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This is disappointing but not surprising. I daily use a Surface 3 with 4 gigs of ram and LTE. I was excited fo
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Simple things like when I click on tasks on O365 Home I get sent to Outlook tasks. Microsoft is the worst at i
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In reply to Username:No it hasn't. Things change, ask Blackberry.
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In reply to nbplopes:Its a windows version of an iPad. Do people say well you just get an appstore console? It
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In reply to paul-thurrott:You have been fair, the problem is with MS listening to everyone and making poor dec
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In reply to Stooks:In a windows environment it makes more sense to go with a windows machine for management an
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In reply to ghostrider:I disagree. My parents and in laws use the basics and most of what they do is in the br
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In reply to MikeCerm:Good points but I still think its missing out on having LTE integrated. For a device like
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So this episode has tempered my excitement for Teams on FedRamp.
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If this had LTE I would consider it. I am surprised by the use of an M chip opposed to getting ChromeOS to run
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This is its core functionality and it faltered. I wonder if its more software or hardware, meaning will it imp
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In reply to paul-thurrott:S Mode is not for "us". Its for my Mom, my in-laws, and most of my users who don
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This is the biggest problem I have is that people expect this to perform like an X86 device and not an iPad. I
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In reply to paul-thurrott: It makes sense to just get the thing running those 64 bit apps. Unlike others I see
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I would like to see the test on LTE. LTE is a battery killer in my experience on my Surface 3 LTE with 4 gigs
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I would like to see a test using all cellular if you can, that tends to be the drag on the current machines.
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In reply to MikeCerm:You understand that an iPad pro is at this price point as well. An iPhone is cheaper than
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So it works the same as an iPad really but with the Windows 10 experience. Running collaborative tools like Ad
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Batteries wear down, that's reality. What Apple did is deceptive. So a software update that makes the pho
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This is what I really want. I don't need a powerhouse for portability. I would prefer a 10 inch screen de
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Of course the comments are filled with people proclaiming that it will not work for them, and they are right.
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Shouldn't we be concerned if it did not have a hibernation issue? Has MS delivered a Surface product that